Hi David, I never suggested that Pekko 1.0.x would not be maintained after a Pekko 1.1.0 release. Lightbend will not maintain Akka 2.6. They have announced September 2023 as the end of support for Akka 2.6 and have already not backported a CVE worthy to the 2.6 line.
On Fri, 14 Jul 2023 at 18:43, David Massart <[email protected]> wrote: > > All, > > Not sure how representative this is, but, at least one of the organizations I > work for, a large European bank, still relies on Java 8 for all their > production deployments. > Although this is something they will eventually do, migrating to a newer > version of Java is not something they can easily do and will take them years. > So, if the Java 8 support is dropped, they'll have to renounce porting their > application to Pekko and stick to Akka 2.6. > > Best regards, > > David > > > On Jul 14, 2023, at 10:20, Nicolas Vollmar <[email protected]> wrote: > > > > Even Java 11 is quite old by now. Installing multiple JDK versions is also > > not that big of a problem. > > I'd agree for moving forward to Java 11 since Java 8 is getting really old. > > > >> On 14 Jul 2023, at 17:23, PJ Fanning <[email protected]> wrote: > >> > >> Hi everyone, > >> > >> Is there any appetite for abandoning Java 8 support in Pekko 1.1.0? > >> > >> An example discussion: > >> > >> https://github.com/apache/incubator-pekko/discussions/482 > >> > >> There is also a complication in our MIME checks due to Java 8. > >> > >> https://github.com/apache/incubator-pekko/pull/481 > >> > >> I'm usually quite reluctant to move away from supporting legacy Java > >> versions but maybe it's time to start dropping Java 8 support. Java 8 > >> users can stick with Pekko 1.0.0. > >> > >> Does anyone have any thoughts on this? > >> > >> Regards, > >> PJ > >> > >> --------------------------------------------------------------------- > >> To unsubscribe, e-mail: [email protected] > >> For additional commands, e-mail: [email protected] > >> > > > > > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > > To unsubscribe, e-mail: [email protected] > > For additional commands, e-mail: [email protected] > > > > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: [email protected] > For additional commands, e-mail: [email protected] > --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [email protected] For additional commands, e-mail: [email protected]
